HDR | Rice Daubney Design for Novartis Headquarters in Sydney

The six-story glass, timber, and aluminum building is expected to be completed late next year.

Novartis

Healthcare company Novartis recently released the designs for the company’s building in Sydney. HDR | Rice Daubney (HDR Architecture acquired the Sydney firm in October) designed the six-story structure, which features a glass exterior with rounded timber and aluminum sections. The building is slated to be completed by late 2015.

This is not the company’s first foray into expertly designed campuses. The company’s main headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, features structures by Frank Gehry, FAIA, José Rafael Moneo, Hon. FAIA, and Tadao Ando, Hon. FAIA, as well as many others.

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Sara Johnson

Sara Johnson is the former associate editor, design news at ARCHITECT. Previously, she was a fellow at CityLab. Her work has also appeared in San Francisco, San Francisco Brides, California Brides, DCist, Patchwork Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor.

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